A simple framework for logging to file in java without too much setup. Intended for students and small projects where you want to get text logging up and running without worrying about imports, setup files, or trawling through documentation. To use the framework, import all the source files directly into your project, everything runs on inbuilt libraries and logging can be done with two lines of code. All information required to use the framework is described within this file.

There are three types of .txt logging:

To create a default logger, build a new instance of the jogging.Logger class. This will create a default logs folder in your project root and save as /logs/log.txt

jogging.Logger logger = new jogging.Logger();
logger.log("Hello, darkness, my old friend");

If you want to specify a name to save your logs as, pass the fileName parameter at the creation of the logger.
Note that there is no need to pass a file extention to the name.

jogging.Logger logger = new jogging.Logger("myLogName");
logger.log("I've come to talk with you again");

If you want to specify a location to save your logs, pass the internalFilePath parameter at the creation of the logger.

jogging.Logger logger = new jogging.Logger("/my/log/location/here/", "myLogName");
logger.log("Because a vision softly creeping");

There exists a utility to log to CSV format before using the log() method. Simply set the CSV parameter to true to change the output file extention. Each line will be appended with a comma delimiter so that the code below creates the line Left,its,seeds,while,I,was,sleeping, in the log file.

jogging.Logger logger = new jogging.Logger();                                   // Create a new logger
logger.setToCSV();                                              // Set the CSV to true
logger.log("Left,its,seeds,while,I,was,sleeping");              // Log a user formatted comma seperated string to a .csv file
logger.setToTxt();                                              // Set the CSV to false (logging will now go to a .txt file of the same name)

By passing an array of Strings or integers to the log() method which will format the strings with delimiters automatically

String[] myStringArray = {"And","the","vision","that","was","planted","in","my","brain"};
logger.log(myStringArray);

int[] myIntegerArray = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9};
logger.log(myIntegerArray);

double[] myDoubleArray = {1.1,2.2,3.3,4.4,5.5};
logger.log(myDoubleArray);

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